London, 1861. Sir Richard Francis Burton—explorer, linguist,scholar, and swordsman; his reputation tarnished; his career intatters; his former partner missing and probably dead. AlgernonCharles Swinburne—unsuccessful poet and follower of de...
It is 1862, though not the 1862 it should be... Time has beenaltered, and Sir Richard Francis Burton, the king’s agent, is oneof the few people who know that the world is now careening along avery different course from that which Destiny...
A blind poker player named Skip DeMarco is scamming the world'slargest poker tournament in Las Vegas, and cheating expert TonyValentine and his son, Gerry, have been hired to find our how.DeMarco is tied to some dangerously desperare characters...
From the national bestselling novelist the Houston Press calls“One of today’s best suspense writers” comes a electrifying storyof murder, greed, and revenge. Ex-cop Tony Valentine has a score tosettle. Decades before, his brother-in-law was...
From the bestselling mystery series Lee Child calls “Top classsuspense ... must reads for me, and one of my favorite series.”comes a novel of murder, mobsters and a police detective whodoesn’t know when to say quit. It’s 1979, and the...
A woman has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in the remote wilderness of Canada. Somehow, the only evidence has made its way to the inbox of Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, over two thousand miles away in Boston. She has no idea...